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AA chases down keeper who lumps it out. Always like to see that workrate.

We could have got a fk into the box, choosing short passing and giving it away instead.

We make any forward ineffective. That's what RM has to sort. Here, it was opening up nicely for AA if we could have got it to him.

Nearly to AA who was right in the middle.

Clearly any minor pluses have to be balanced by the harsh realities of those point🍿 🙂

Tough angle for Fraser there. Shout out to Wood for getting that started and being fine with our auto passing around defence. Them getting drawn up. suits us.

Some nice moments. Les available for a midfield pass, AA chasing down keepers and the ball sticking to Aribo. Another memory is getting caught on the counter Alex blocking. But for all our good bits, theirs is by far the best chance.

Hilarious crowd disapproval when they passed it back. Imagine they were us. 🙂

Decent start from us. Controlled, but getting into better attacking positions.

Well we didn't get a shot, but that was a nice RussBall move there.

Lallana off for Fernandes

Martin will be pleased with the possession, and the spell of control before the break. But efforts were about the same, and like a lot of games our opponents ones were the more exciting ones. We had a couple of headers after our PB build up. Cornet had a run but hit over. We look a bit disjointed. AA made runs but we don't risk over the top balls. He came deep, but either had no one to pass forward to himself, or played it back. We seem incapable of having Aribo be a focal for AA and/ or Fraser to work off. Cornet had a few bright moments. Lallana had a few more. But no one consistently enough to be controlling the game. Alex was never going to be able to control the cross, that led to their goal. Wood, who had a few shaky moments, had moved off the post. There were a couple of moments where we lost the ball needlessly. Wood's being the most noticeable being further back. Another 45 looking for the passes to result in more chances.

Needless from Wood there. We had a warning down his side a couple of times just before.

Yippee! THB!

Players: "Steady on chief, with your weird new ideas!"

We've responded with a couple of patient build ups, but with headers not paying off. They just catch us, run straight up the park and it's stopped by Alex.

Oh dear

No replays on that one. 'Allo 'Allo We shall show this only once.

Solid defensive work by THB. Someone used to our opponents breaking.

Cornet putting over a deep ball, with 2 in the middle.

Another day where I'm happy to have SOG on ignore. Just from the responses, there's simply no issue, no matter the impact, that doesn't end up like this. I recently watched a long seminar from a leading international investigator into human trafficking and exploitation. Story after story of the organised crushing of innocence, liberty, spirit and life. Facilitated by groups with massive resources, corrupting the governance and societies of where they operate. And their operations are widespread. It's utterly harrowing. You feel a bit of you die inside as you're told about some of the typologies used by these people to get the attention and payment from the likes of Edwards. Just hearing about it causes that. SOG is focusing on Edwards specific offence. However, the phrasing is appalling. The flippant tone of the post, equally so. Not helped by the follow ups, where you just fail to understand the reaction. There's also a stunning lack of awareness in the impact and complexity of dealing with these people. Even if you just supplied the staples for the grown ups in law enforcement, you should have a much clearer view on just how close to crimes of the century these networks are. The more coverage and awareness to highlight, and help stop this, is just fine by me. Never too late to return to that post, consider the points raised and provide a revised version.

Radio 5 live were saying that the Brum v Wrexham game was getting coverage in the US. Beckham was there watching it.

Well that saved me a post. With the added benefit for everyone, that yours was a lot better than mine would have been. 🙂

Rail

Sad news, and our thoughts are with all his family, friends, colleagues and many fans. Part of an excellent team.